There is so much fun to be had with this one! Very DIY-able if you can get your hands on a silicone gel, and flexible. We ended up drafting up two starter dupe formulations; one using ingredients closer to the original, and one using ingredients that are more widely available.
I’ve been using and loving these cream cosmetics since December 2023 and though it was high time I shared the formulations 😄
This was another fun one—apologies for the goblin cameo 😅 Ingredients: Aqua/Water/Eau, Propanediol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Sodium Stearate, Xylitol, Lactococcus Ferment Lysate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Oleth-20, Glycerin, Citrullus Lanatus (Watermelon) Fruit Extract, Lens Esculenta (Lentil) Fruit Extract, Caffeine, Pyrus Malus (Apple) Fruit Extract…
I’m so fascinated by this product—part serum, part emulsion, part makeup! Let’s dig into how it works and find out if we can create something similar at home.
These formulations were inspired by the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat Blur Face Primer; a $52USD/oz. blurring facial primer that makes your skin look airbrushed. I’ll teach you how to make this primer for less than 1/5 the price, plus how to customize it into extra glowy and truly luxurious variations. Let’s dive in!
The inspiration for this Transfer-Resistant Cream Foundation came from two places. Place #1 was my 2020 Second Skin Cream Foundation, which was inspired by RCMA’s cream foundations. I love this formulation and have been using it ever since. My love (and use) was intensified when I ordered my favourite magnetic palette and wanted to put all the things it it. I scraped my Second Skin Cream Foundation out of its little 5g pot and moved it to a standalone 36mm round pan and was off to the races! I now positively adore having as much of my makeup as possible in a magnetic palette, which is where piece of inspiration #2 comes into play.
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